Haptic object perception

Myrthe Plaisier

Welcome

We interact with objects all day, every day. When holding an object in the hand we receive information about this object from contact points distributed over the skin. We can exert forces on the object, move or rotate it in the hand. This results in an overwhelmingly complex stream of information. Our sensory system processes this information such that in the end we perceive an object. My mission is to understand how this proces works.

About

My name is Myrthe and I spend most of my days trying to figure out how we perceive the world using our sense of touch.